Fitbit consumers claim burn hazard goes beyond recalled device

Fitbit on March 2, 2022, recalled 1.7 million of its Ionic smartwatches used for tracking steps and other activity due to the risk of batteries overheating and burning wearers, noting that the recall didn’t involve other Fitbit smartwatches or trackers. But ‘the same defect exists throughout all’ the Fitbit models, the women said in the lawsuit. — AFP

Alphabet Inc’s Google didn’t go far enough when it recalled a single model of its Fitbit smartwatches, two women claim in a lawsuit, saying other versions of the device also burn users and can burst into flames.

“Reasonable consumers, like plaintiffs, purchase the products to burn calories – not their skin,” lawyers for the women, one from Pennsylvania and the other from California, said in the lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in San Jose.